山東大學經濟學院講師馬馳騁講座暨180期“華南經濟論壇”通知
題目：Political Connections and the Rise and Fall of Native Banks in Late
Imperial China
主講人:馬馳騁 （山東大學經濟學院講師）
時間：6月2日(周四)下午3點
地點：學院三樓會議室
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摘要：It remains a puzzle how native banks (piaohao and qianzhuang) achieved sustained growth despite the lacking of legal protection in late Qing China. Drawing upon a unique data of native banks in 17 provinces between 1823 and 1911, and the exogenous variations in the appointment of local officials from the Avoidance System, we examine the role of political connections in substituting the missing legal institutions to facilitate banking development. Our results consistently indicate a “regional favoritism” in the officials-banks nexus: the number of bank branches in a province increased significantly after the appointment of a provincial official who was born in the same native province with the bank owner’s. The importance of political connections is further evidenced by the finding that regions having produced more high officials experienced a greater decline of native banks relative to other places after the collapse of the Qing dynasty.
報告人簡介：
馬馳騁，山東大學經濟學院講師，2011年獲香港科技大學社會科學博士學位。研究領域為經濟史、發展經濟學、政治經濟學。講授經濟史、政治經濟學、中國經濟、中國金融史課程。論文發表于Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Economic History。目前承擔國家自然科學基金項目“儒家文化與經濟增長：基于歷史計量學的經驗研究”一項。